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About Kosuke Kawamura

Born in 1979 in Hiroshima and cur­rently lives in Tokyo. Works as both Graphic Designer and Spe­cial Affect Designer. He is also a One Plus col­lage artist. Was accepted at Takashi Nemoto’s exhi­bi­tion, “Takashi Nemoto and oth­ers’ Pick! Cheer­ful Every­day”. Now an art direc­tor for E Mag­a­zine that he has launched with INUNCHU. Col­lab­o­rated a T-shirt work with an apparel brand, “VANDALIZE” and also some graphic work for “NADA.”. Pro­duced numer­ous fly­ers for sev­eral lives and events.

Pub­lished num­bers of book designs and other mate­ri­als for design­ers such as : Takashi Nemoto, Masaya Hara, Nao­hiro Ukawa and Yuichi Jibiki. Together with Mr. Nemoto, pro­duces test-art comic, “Soleil Dis­ci­pline”. It cur­rently been pub­lished seri­ally for a quar­terly mag­a­zine TRASH-UP! Started a live silk print in 2007. The silk screen project focuses on mon­e­tary value. Often taken on projects that deeply evolves around con­cepts. Has col­lab­o­rated with Win­ston Smith and KINGJOE to par­tic­i­pate in both solo and group exhi­bi­tions in muse­ums and gal­leries. He keeps expand­ing his abil­ity as a graphic designer by tak­ing on dif­fer­ent medias of mate­ri­als: book designs, DVD/CD jacket designs, adver­tise­ment, apparel, events and others.

New in Munchie-land!

Our friends in Tokyo, MxMxM, have released their brand-new Win­ter — Spring col­lec­tion, and among our favorites are these two items fea­tur­ing “Nuclear Scream.”

Nuclear Scream was orig­i­nally made in 1977, and was used for the back of Dead Kennedys’ “Kill the Poor” 7″ in 1980.

In 2010, Win­ston com­bined his orig­i­nal two images to reflect his life-long anti-nuke posi­tion. Polit­i­cal Grid­lock made posters and did a street art cam­paign all over the Bay Area and LA.

Iron­i­cally, only months after this cam­paign, the Fukushima Dai­ichi Nuclear Dis­as­ter rocked Japan and the world on March 11th, 2011.

We are hon­ored that MxMxM in Tokyo has selected this image to raise funds for dis­as­ter relief. A por­tion of the pro­ceeds from this t-shirt and coach jacket will go to Japan Cher­nobyl Foun­da­tion, an orga­ni­za­tion that helps vic­tims of the earth­quake Fukushima nuclear power plant.

If you missed the open­ing party, mark your cal­en­dars for Tues­day, Octo­ber 25th (6pm). Rob Reger will be exhibit­ing some of his bril­liant col­lage works, plus some col­lab­o­ra­tions with Win­ston and Jim Dirschberger at 111 Minna.

Ear­lier this month, Rob and Win­ston locked them­selves in “Grant’s Tomb” and cre­ated sev­eral col­lab­o­ra­tive col­lages, described by Reger as “Two mad sci­en­tists exchang­ing secrets and cre­at­ing some off­spring with a true blend of their two styles.” This is an unprece­dented event, and Win­ston will be in atten­dance and is excited to invited to join the show.

Born Again (Again) is a trans­for­ma­tive and fig­u­ra­tive mixed and multi-media art exhibit fea­tur­ing the col­lage work of Rob Reger.

SPECIALGUESTS:

Win­ston Smith

James Dirschberger

“I invited Win­ston Smith to col­lab­o­rate on a few col­lages with me. [The] col­lages he cre­ated for the Dead Kennedys shaped how I cre­ated col­lages from an early age. Over the years, Win­ston has become a good friend, and con­tin­ues to inspire me through his own work. I invited him to join with me to “play” God, and give new life to imagery we find wor­thy of the cause.” ~ Rob Reger

“Select areas of imagery are first dis­sected, then care­fully brought back to life one con­nec­tion at a time through the sur­gi­cal prac­tice known as col­lage. This life, as these franken­steined “orig­i­nals,” is sim­i­lar to child­hood– finite in time that it exists, given the nature of the mate­ri­als used. That child­like exis­tence is then cap­tured and brought into adult­hood when I cre­ate a sec­ond life as these “char­ac­ters” are re-imagined and printed and painted on wood. Finally, if their Cre­ator is inspired enough by their pre­vi­ous exis­tences, they make it into the spirit-world through film and ani­ma­tion. It is here they are finally allowed to move and have ever­last­ing life. I am inter­ested in tak­ing these col­lages to a “larger than life” place by phys­i­cally repro­duc­ing them on a large scale, and ani­mat­ing and pro­ject­ing them. In the past, sim­i­lar col­lage works have only been shown in small frames with a mag­ni­fy­ing glass. Now the work will be acces­si­ble from any­where in the room.”
–Rob Reger, artist

Mark your cal­en­dars for Thurs­day, Octo­ber 6th. Rob Reger will be exhibit­ing some of his bril­liant col­lage works, plus some col­lab­o­ra­tions with Win­ston and oth­ers at 111 Minna.

Ear­lier this month, Rob and Win­ston locked them­selves in “Grant’s Tomb” and cre­ated sev­eral col­lab­o­ra­tive col­lages. This is an unprece­dented event, and Win­ston is excited to invited to join the show.

Born Again (Again) is a trans­for­ma­tive and fig­u­ra­tive mixed and multi-media art exhibit fea­tur­ing the col­lage work of Rob Reger.

SPECIALGUESTS:

Win­ston Smith

James Dirschberger

“I invited Win­ston Smith to col­lab­o­rate on a few col­lages with me. [The] col­lages he cre­ated for the Dead Kennedys shaped how I cre­ated col­lages from an early age. Over the years, Win­ston has become a good friend, and con­tin­ues to inspire me through his own work. I invited him to join with me to “play” God, and give new life to imagery we find wor­thy of the cause.” ~ Rob Reger

“Select areas of imagery are first dis­sected, then care­fully brought back to life one con­nec­tion at a time through the sur­gi­cal prac­tice known as col­lage. This life, as these franken­steined “orig­i­nals,” is sim­i­lar to child­hood– finite in time that it exists, given the nature of the mate­ri­als used. That child­like exis­tence is then cap­tured and brought into adult­hood when I cre­ate a sec­ond life as these “char­ac­ters” are re-imagined and printed and painted on wood. Finally, if their Cre­ator is inspired enough by their pre­vi­ous exis­tences, they make it into the spirit-world through film and ani­ma­tion. It is here they are finally allowed to move and have ever­last­ing life. I am inter­ested in tak­ing these col­lages to a “larger than life” place by phys­i­cally repro­duc­ing them on a large scale, and ani­mat­ing and pro­ject­ing them. In the past, sim­i­lar col­lage works have only been shown in small frames with a mag­ni­fy­ing glass. Now the work will be acces­si­ble from any­where in the room.”
–Rob Reger, artist

NOTE: Dimen­sions are for “live” area. There will be an addi­tional 2″ border.

Sizes

Dog is my Co-Pilot, 2000

Used as the cover of Executioner’s — Hell­bound (2010).

Archival Giclée print on Som­er­set Vel­vet — Signed and Num­bered. Edi­tion of 50.

38 3/4″ x 29″

NOTE: Dimen­sions are for “live” area. There will be an addi­tional 2″ border.

800.00

The Futil­ity of a Well-Ordered Life, 1990

Archival Giclée print on Som­er­set Vel­vet — Signed and Num­bered. Edi­tion of 50.

33 3/4″ x 29″

NOTE: Dimen­sions are for “live” area. There will be an addi­tional 2″ border.

800.00

God Told Me to Skin You Alive, 1995

The col­lage on the album cover was cre­ated by Win­ston Smith and is called God Told Me to Skin You Alive, a ref­er­ence to Dead Kennedys first album, “Fresh Fruit for Rot­ting Veg­eta­bles”. Inter­est­ingly enough, the cover art con­tains an image (the den­tist) that was orig­i­nally used in a col­lage fea­tured in the insert book­let art of Dead Kennedys’ album Plas­tic Surgery Dis­as­ters. There are also three skulls on the entire album cover– one for each mem­ber of Green Day. One of the skulls requires you to view the piece at an angle. The hid­den skull is taken from Hans Holbein’s 1533 paint­ing The Ambassadors.